title: Complete mitochondrial genome of the blue-spotted stingray Neotrygon kuhlii (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae).
abstract: The blue-spotted stingray Neotrygon kuhlii is a small stingray distributed in the Indian and West Pacific Ocean. It was considered a species complex by morphological and molecular evidences. In this study, we firstly presented the complete mitochondrial genome of N. kuhlii. It is 18,039 bp in length, including 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes and 1 control region, with the typical gene order in the mitogenomes of vertebrates. The total base composition is 31.9% A, 26.4% C, 13.1% G and 28.6% T, with an A + T bias of 60.5%. Alignment results demonstrated that the mitochondrial sequences of N. kuhlii in this study were highly similar to the 12S, 16S, COI and Cyt b sequences of the specimens collected from the Chinese seas in other studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Marine Science, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, PR China and.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.forename: Junqi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Wenyong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Saile
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D019156:Indian Ocean; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010140:Pacific Ocean; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012860:Skates, Fish / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: Dasyatidae; Neotrygon kuhlii; mitogenome; species complex